Kazakhstan's "Foreign Agent" List Threatens NGOs - Аналитический интернет-журнал Власть
Just in the past decade, Kazakhstan’s lawmakers have passed several legislative hurdles and control mechanisms against civil society, especially targeting those organizations that receive foreign funding, informally called “foreign agents”. A recent much-criticized decision by Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Finance to publish a (partial) list of foreign-funded entities in Kazakhstan has reignited the stigma surrounding such civil society groups. Legislation of this kind hinders, threatens, and punishes civil society. That foreign agent-style laws have been proposed and passed in several of K...